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Europe is paying the price for its suicidal obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. The power pricing and supply calamity that’s hit Germany and others was as perfectly predictable as it was perfectly avoidable.

Power prices are out of control and weather-driven power rationing is the new normal.

The Germans once had heroic plans to kill off all of their nuclear and coal-fired power plants, but that was before Vlad Putin stormed into Ukraine and drew focus on just how reliant Germany is on Russian oil and gas.

Plans to mothball nuclear and coal-fired plants have been quietly shelved, and reliability and security of supply is all the rage.

Because the reality doesn’t fit the narrative, the mainstream media has largely ignored Europe’s self-inflicted energy crisis.

But, as Dr Benny Peiser points out below, Europe’s experience offers an opportunity to avoid the perfectly avoidable crisis that comes with an…